‘Friday’

Just when we thought teen pop couldn’t get any worse, along came Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” A hasty first listen doesn’t reveal quite how bad the song is — after all, a young girl singing about her excitement over a party mixed with a soft rap interlude is a pretty standard pop formula these days. But even the most banal of Britney songs wouldn’t have affronted us with these lyrics: “Kicking in the front seat/ Sitting in the back seat/ Gotta make my mind up/ Which seat can I take?” From chanting the word fun over and over to listing the days of the week (thanks, Rebecca, for letting us know that Saturday follows Friday and that “Sunday comes afterwards”), “Friday” is hilariously awful. Unfortunately, the video is also compulsively watchable, not to mention everywhere on the Internet. So the only thing more troubling than the inanity of the song’s lyrics is how many times you might actually listen to them.